<div dir="ltr">Thank you Eric,<div><br></div><div>the footnote is greatly appreciated from down here in Central America. I would never make fun of the pretentions, and greatly respect your internal values and freedoms as per your constitution a lot. </div><div><br></div><div>But the external track record is indeed inconsistent. For that reason I prefer to leave ICANN out of this discussion. The fight for human rights is at a different level.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature">Carlos Raúl Gutiérrez<br>ISOC Costa Rica Chapter<br>skype carlos.raulg<br>+506 8837 7176 (New Phone number!!!!)<br>________<br>Apartado 1571-1000<br>COSTA RICA</div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 6:44 PM, Eric (Maule) Brunner-Williams <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ebw@abenaki.wabanaki.net" target="_blank">ebw@abenaki.wabanaki.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Avri,<br>
<br>
The exercise of delegated rule making (Prof. Froomkin's language, not the<br>
more familar Jones Day's language) does not vacate the delegating agency's<br>
larger obligations, which includes a respect for human rights. [1]<br>
<span class=""><br>
> I still maintain that as a vassal of the NTIA, ICANN would have been<br>
> constrained to respect human rights and that the loss of NTIA forces<br>
> us to take some responsibility for that as a corporation, especially<br>
> in regard to an open Internet.<br>
<br>
</span>So I agree with your statement as to where the responsibility lies.<br>
<br>
Eric Brunner-Williams<br>
Eugene, Oregon<br>
<br>
[1] Some laughter is permissible at the human rights pretentions of the USG.<br>
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